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diff --git a/documentation/src/osissues.dox b/documentation/src/osissues.dox index e72398e..07fd508 100644 --- a/documentation/src/osissues.dox +++ b/documentation/src/osissues.dox @@ -479,6 +479,15 @@ In FLTK, all strings, including filenames, are UTF-8 encoded. The utility functi fl_fopen() and fl_open() allow to open files potentially having non-ASCII names in a cross-platform fashion, whereas the standard fopen()/open() functions fail to do so. +\subsection osissues_wm_quit Responding to WM_QUIT + +FLTK will intercept WM_QUIT messages that are directed towards the +thread that runs the main loop. These are converted to SIGTERM signals +via \c raise(). This allows you to deal with outside termination +requests with the same code on both Windows and UNIX systems. +Other processes can send this message via \c PostThreadMessage() in +order to request, rather than force your application to terminate. + \subsection osissues_win32_messages Handling Other WIN32 Messages By default a single WNDCLASSEX called "FLTK" is @@ -716,10 +725,6 @@ void fl_mac_set_about( Fl_Callback *cb, void *user_data, int shortcut) Attaches the callback \c cb to the "About myprog" item of the system application menu. \c cb will be called with NULL first argument and \c user_data second argument. -Fl_Mac_App_Menu class -\par -The Fl_Mac_App_Menu class allows to localize the application menu. - Fl_Sys_Menu_Bar class \par @@ -727,8 +732,24 @@ The Fl_Sys_Menu_Bar class allows to build menu bars that, on Mac OS X, are placed in the system menu bar (at top-left of display), and, on other platforms, at a user-chosen location of a user-chosen window. -\subsection osissues_quartz Drawing Things Using Quartz +\subsection osissues_icon_osx Setting the icon of an application +\li First, create a .icns file containing several copies of your icon of decreasing sizes. +This can be done using the Preview application or the Icon Composer application +available in "Graphics Tools for Xcode". To create a high resolution icon file, +it is necessary to use the iconutil command-line utility. +\li Put your .icns file in the Resources subdirectory of your application bundle. +\li Add these two lines to the Info.plist file of your application bundle +\verbatim +<key>CFBundleIconFile</key> +<string>foo.icns</string> +\endverbatim +replacing <tt>foo</tt> by your application name. If you use Xcode, just add your .icns file to your +application target. + + + +\subsection osissues_quartz Drawing Things Using Quartz All code inside Fl_Widget::draw() is expected to call Quartz drawing functions. The Quartz coordinate system is flipped to match @@ -737,6 +758,27 @@ left corner of the enclosing Fl_Window. The global variable \c fl_gc (of type \c CGContextRef) is the appropriate Quartz 2D drawing environment. Include FL/x.H to declare the \c fl_gc variable. +\subsection osissues_localize Internationalization +All FLTK programs contain an application menu with, e.g., the About xxx, Hide xxx, and Quit xxx items. +This menu can be internationalized/localized by any of two means. +\li using the Fl_Mac_App_Menu class. +\li using the standard Mac OS X localization procedure. Create a language-specific .lproj directory +(e.g., <tt>German.lproj</tt>) in the Resources subdirectory of the application bundle. +Create therein a <tt>Localizable.strings</tt> file that translates all menu items to this language. +The German <tt>Localizable.strings</tt> file, for example, contains: +\verbatim +"About %@" = "Über %@"; +"Print Front Window"="Frontfenster drucken"; +"Services" = "Dienste"; +"Hide %@"="%@ ausblenden"; +"Hide Others"="Andere ausblenden"; +"Show All"="Alle einblenden"; +"Quit %@"="%@ beenden"; +\endverbatim +Set <tt>"Print Front Window" = "";</tt> therein so the application menu doesn't show a "Print Front Window" item. +To localize the application name itself, create a file <tt>InfoPlist.strings</tt> in each .lproj directory +and put <tt>CFBundleName = "localized name";</tt> in each such file. + Fl_Double_Window OS X double-buffers all windows automatically. On OS X, |